Shiny

Shiny Server 1.5.6.875 and Shiny Server Pro 1.5.6.902 are now available.
This release of Shiny Server Pro includes floating license support and Shiny Server contains a small enhancement to the way errors are displayed. We recommend upgrading at your earliest convenience.
Shiny Server 1.5.6.875 Use HTTPS for Google Fonts on error page, which resolves insecure content errors on some browser when run behind SSL. (PR #322) Shiny Server Pro 1.
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The pool package makes it easier for Shiny developers to connect to databases. Up until now, there wasn’t a clearly good way to do this. As a Shiny app author, if you connect to a database globally (outside of the server function), your connection won’t be robust because all sessions would share that connection (which could leave most users hanging when one of them is using it, or even all of them if the connection breaks).
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Shiny Server 1.5.4.869 and Shiny Server Pro 1.5.4.872 are now available.
Both the new Shiny Server and Shiny Server Pro releases include bug fixes and enhancements, and we recommend upgrading at your earliest convenience.
Shiny Server 1.5.4.869 Clickjacking protection can now be enabled using the frame_options directive. This directive was already available in Shiny Server Pro, but is now available in Shiny Server as well. A bug that caused "Error: Can't set headers after they are sent.
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I am excited to announce the redesign and reorganization of shiny.rstudio.com, also known as the Shiny Dev Center. The Shiny Dev Center is the place to go to learn about all things Shiny and to keep up to date with it as it evolves.
The goal of this refresh is to provide a clear learning path for those who are just starting off with developing Shiny apps as well as to make advanced Shiny topics easily accessible to those building large and complex apps.
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RStudio is very excited to announce that rstudio::conf 2018 is open for registration!
rstudio::conf, the conference on all things R and RStudio, will take place February 2 and 3, 2018 in San Diego, California, preceded by Training Days on January 31 and February 1.
This year’s conference will feature keynotes from Di Cook, Monash University Professor and Iowa State University Emeritus Faculty; and J.J. Allaire, RStudio Founder, CEO & Principal Developer, along with talks from Shiny creator Joe Cheng and (no-introduction-necessary) Hadley Wickham.
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We’re pleased to introduce the learnr package, now available on CRAN. The learnr package makes it easy to turn any R Markdown document into an interactive tutorial. Tutorials consist of content along with interactive components for checking and reinforcing understanding. Tutorials can include any or all of the following:
Narrative, figures, illustrations, and equations.
Code exercises (R code chunks that users can edit and execute directly).
Multiple choice quizzes.
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Five months ago we launched shinyapps.io. Since then, more than 25,000 accounts have been created and countless Shiny applications have been deployed. It’s incredibly exciting to see!
It’s also given us lots of data and feedback on how we can make shinyapps.io better. Today, we’re happy to tell you about some changes to our subscription Plans that we hope will make shinyapps.io an even better experience for Shiny developers and their application users.
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RStudio is excited to announce the general availability (GA) of shinyapps.io.
Shinyapps.io is an easy to use, secure, and scalable hosted service already being used by thousands of professionals and students to deploy Shiny applications on the web. Effective today, shinyapps.io has completed beta testing and is generally available as a commercial service for anyone.
As regular readers of our blog know, Shiny is a popular free and open source R package from RStudio that simplifies the creation of interactive web applications, dashboards, and reports.
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Great news for Shiny and R Markdown enthusiasts!
An Interactive Reporting Workshop with Shiny and R Markdown is coming to a city near you. Act fast as only 20 seats are available for each workshop.
You can find out more / register by clicking on the link for your city!
East Coast West Coast March 2 - Washington, DC April 15 - Los Angeles, CA March 4 - New York, NY April 17 - San Francisco, CA March 6 - Boston, MA April 20 - Seattle, WA You’ll want to take this workshop if…
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Shiny v0.10.2 has been released to CRAN. To install it:
install.packages('shiny') This version of Shiny requires R 3.0.0 or higher (note the current version of R is 3.1.1). R 2.15.x is no longer supported.
Here are the most prominent changes:
File uploading via fileInput() now works for Internet Explorer 8 and 9. Note, however, that IE 8⁄9 do not support multiple files from a single file input. If you need to upload multiple files, you must use one file input for each file.
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